Empathy is really important.. Only when our clever brain and our human heart work together in harmony can we achieve our full potential.

Empathy and kindness are the greatest strengths a leader can possess.

Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It’s about character first. It’s about story. And for me, it’s about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.

You don’t need religion to have morals. If you can’t decide right from wrong then you lack empathy, not religion.
Kane

The best stories are the ones that make you think

The act of reading is an act of empathy.

Literature is a celebration of the human spirit, a testament to our capacity for creativity and empathy

Language is a tool for understanding and empathy, and literature is its most powerful expression.

We do not exist for ourselves

believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.

We will not just say, “I love him very much,” but instead, “I will do something so that he will suffer less.” The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person’s suffering.

If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person

Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, …awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world. If we get in touch with the suffering of the world, and are moved by that suffering, we may come forward to help the people who are suffering

Compassion is a verb

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself

The world needs more empathy and understanding. Choose kindness over judgement.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

We are never really happy until we try to brighten the lives of others.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Those who understand evil pardon it.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

I’m an emotional gangster. I cry once every month

The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our ego and live in another’s world.

It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without clothes or blankets.

It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.

The energy we put out in the world is the energy we get back. So if you want more love in your life, set your intention to be more loving. If you seek kindness, focus your energy on empathy and compassion. Conversely, if you wonder why there are so many angry people in your life, look no further than the resentment you hold in your own heart.

The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don’t know why. It’s ugly, everywhere.

Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Why be afraid of difficulties, sufferings, and problems? When troubles come, try to understand the relevance of your sufferings. Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

I believe that the most inexpensive, and perhaps the best medicine in the world is words. Kind words, positive words, and words that help people who feel ashamed of an invisible illness to overcome their shame and feel free.

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.